Alistair Overeem Quotes
Even after you win the championship, the work doesn't stop; it probably only becomes more. I'm just basically focused on what I need to do. There's a lot that goes into this - diet, preparation, assembling the right people around you, sparring partners, coaches, etc. - so I'm not enjoying anything.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
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We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.
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What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things in half, and show a picture of the food in the pan, in the oven.
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When I work out, I wear two in-the-ear hearing aids for comfort, and then I wear the behind-the-ears for my day-to-day non-physical activities, when I need maximum hearing and to communicate with people and do interviews!
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.
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Even after you win the championship, the work doesn't stop; it probably only becomes more. I'm just basically focused on what I need to do. There's a lot that goes into this - diet, preparation, assembling the right people around you, sparring partners, coaches, etc. - so I'm not enjoying anything.
